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Belizean Spanish | |
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Español beliceño | |
Pronunciation | [espaˈɲol βeliˈseɲo] |
Ethnicity | Hispanic and Latin American Belizeans |
Native speakers | 200,000 all dialects of Spanish (2014–2019)[1] |
Early forms | |
Latin (Spanish alphabet) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | None |
IETF | es-BZ |
Belizean Spanish (Spanish: español beliceño) is the dialect of Spanish spoken in Belize. It is similar to Caribbean Spanish, Andalusian Spanish, and Canarian Spanish. While English is the only official language of Belize, Spanish is the common language of majority (62.8%), wherein 174,000 (52,9% of Belizeans) speak some variety of Spanish as a native language. Belizeans of Guatemalan, Honduran, Mexican (including Mexican Mennonites), Nicaraguan, Salvadoran (including Salvadoran Mennonites), and even Cuban descent may speak different dialects of Spanish, but since they grow up in Belize, they adopt the local accent.
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